Jowi Taylor
Canadian radio host
Jowi Taylor (born June 15, 1962) is a Toronto-based radio personality, public speaker and originator of the Six String Nation guitar, also known as Voyageur.
As a radio broadcaster, producer, writer and host, Taylor is known for his work at CBC Radio's weekly music and news programme, Global Village, which ran from 1997 to 2007. He also hosted and co-produced the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, and its follow-up six-part series The Nerve: Music and the Human Experience with Chris Brookes and Paolo Pietropaolo. For his work in radio, he has received the Prix Italia, a Gabriel Award, a New York Festivals Award, and a Peabody Award.
Early influences
Taylor's interest in writing began in Toronto's Victoria Park Secondary School with the influence of a series of Writers-in-Residence programmes, including CanLit notables Katherine Govier, David McFadden and Christopher Dewdney. While in high school, he participated in author and playwright David Young's "Dream Class" for gifted writers.
Radio career
While studying Linguistics at the University of Toronto, Taylor took up radio hosting as a volunteer at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's campus-community radio station CKLN-FM. A break in studies took him to Thailand for a year, where he hosted a daily radio show at WNSP 107 in Bangkok. Returning to complete his degree at the University of Toronto, he resumed duties at CKLN-FM as host of From There To Hear, a weekly world music show.
In 1997, Taylor was chosen to host a new CBC radio show called Global Village. Over its decade on-air, Global Village garnered numerous international awards, including the Prix Italia, the Gabriel Award, the New York Festivals Award and several prizes from Germany's Deutsche Welle Radio.
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